Dr Sara Bice, MSoG, and Dr Kieren Moffat, CSIRO, have recently been awarded ‘Best Paper’ for Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal journal for 2014. The award was given for their paper, ‘Social licence to Operate and Impact Assessment’ (IAPA, 32:4, December 2014) and in recognition of all of the contributors to their co-edited Special Issue on the same topic.

Dr Bice was pleased to accept the award at the International Association for Impact Assessment annual conference in Florence, Italy, on 24 May, on behalf of her co-editor and journal contributors.